A. Shelley
B. Tolstoy
C. Byron
D. Dostoyevsky
Related Mcqs:
- Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?
A. Skipping church on Sunday
B. A woman screaming at her husband in public
C. Stealing a horse
D. Public drunkenness - This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Collins
C. Thomas Gray
D. Ben Jonson - In The Purgatorio, how does Dante depict the punishment of the proud penitents ?
A. They are punished with whips and bridles.
B. They are forced to carry heavy rocks on their backs.
C. They have their eyes sewn shut with wire.
D. They must walk through thick smoke. - What does the priest’s son’s prayers for the punishment of the tribe’s iniquities tell us about the Zuni tribe ?
A. They are nosey and stays busy tending to other people’s business
B. The Zunis are spiritual and have a strong moral code that they live by and teach to their children
C. That the Zunis are afraid of earthquakes and floods
D. That the Zunis like to make up stories for pure entertainment - ’Book 1’ of ’Paradise Lost’ presents Satan with his angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan awakens all his legions and speaks to them. The first he addresses is described as ’one next to himself in power, and next in crime, long after known in Palestine’. What’s the name of this fallen angel?
A. Mammon
B. Moloch
C. Beelzebub
D. Ashtaroth - According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit ?
A. He killed all of the old people
B. He killed all of the female children
C. He killed all of the male children
D. He killed all of the women - I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be–while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess - Who wrote the poem “Requiem” ?
A. Robert Louis Stevenson
B. William Shakespeare
C. Samuel Johnson
D. John Milton - Who wrote first ?
A. George Eliot
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Howard, Earl of Surrey
D. William Shakespeare - Who wrote poem about Lucy ?
A. S. T. Coleridge
B. P. B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. Lord Byron
